I’m a relatively happy customer of Southeastern Electric Cooperative. They provide me electricity for much cheaper than I could generate myself and I’m part owner of the company (as is everyone else that gets electricity from Southeastern), but after receiving a bill for $150.00 in the mail for my August electricity, I figured it was …
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Fall TV Shows
I’m not a terribly huge television watcher, but I do watch/listen to a number of podcasts on a regular basis. I usually try to get into one or two shows every fall season, but quite often the shows get stale rather quickly (I’m looking at you, Flash Forward) or I otherwise lose interest. There are …
How to Ensure You Will Actually Get Paid as a Freelancer
As unemployment rates remain elevated in most developed countries, people with specific marketable skill sets, such as website development, graphic design and copy writing, have been applying those talents in the marketplace in the form of freelance work to supplement their income streams. As a person that has done a lot of freelancing work in …
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Yankton Trail Park and Tut Hill Park Flooding 7/30/2010
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Big Sioux River Flooding 7/30/2010
via youtube.com This is a compilation of videos that I made using my Flip Camera while on a bike-ride around the Sioux Fallss greenway today. I’ve included video of various parts of the Big Sioux River which have flooded and video from Falls Park. I estimate that water levels are somewhere between 5 and 7 …
How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog for Performance
WordPress is an excellent blogging/news website platform as a whole, but has been criticized for being a bit of a performance dog. One of my websites which is powered by WordPress receives between 100,000 and 200,000 unique visitors a month. I’ve gotten a few nasty emails from the two hosts that I’ve had the site …
How to Make Use of Namespaces in C# and Visual Basic .NET
If you’ve written any sort of software application of decent size, you’ll know that you need to structure your code, most often using object oriented design techniques, to keep your code-base manageable. Some languages such as Java and C# enable developers to write object-oriented applications relatively well out of the box without much extra work. …
Arvixe’s Customer Service Has Won Me Over
For years, I had been a DreamHost customer. I had their standard shared reseller hosting account that costs peanuts. Every few weeks my sites would crash hard when they had any remote amount of significant traffic. Eventually it got to the point where I was losing out on ad-revenue because of DreamHost’s inability to keep …
Facebook Goes Live with Bookmark Prompt
A couple of months ago, Facebook announced some ambitious changes to their API. We’re now starting to see some of the first of the newly announced features be released into the wild. A couple of weeks ago, Facebook added the ability for developers to ask prompt to bookmark their application. Previously, users were only able …